Princeton Junior D A R Meets and Circles Host Meetings
The Princeton Junior D A R chapter meets with Mrs. Charles Year on Tuesday evening at her home on the old Princeton Bluefield road with Mrs Ernest Srangier as guest speaker. Caroline Hylton Circle meets at 7 30 tonight at Miss Effie Thornton s home on Highland Avenue. Rachel Fulton Circle hosts pot luck dinner at 6 30 tonight at the First Methodist Church with business session afterward. East River Baptist mass meeting at Bluefield Virginia tonight at 7 30 with attendees from First Baptist Princeton. buses depart at 6 45. Ola Lea Circle meets at 7 45 tonight with Mrs Melvin Smith. program by Mrs Max Lawson. Princeton Archery Club meets at 8 tonight at Douglas warehouse to prepare for a club charter and announce Hoy has permit for a target range. Legion posts 54 elect officers Tuesday night at the Memorial building.
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DAR
D.A.R
Charles
Princeton- Bluefield Road
Ernest Srangier
Caroline Hylton
Sam Goode
Therogram
Aroline Hylton
First Baptist Church
Effie Thornton
Highland Avenue
Rachel Fulton
First Methodist Church
Pat Twohig
Herbert Herring
Ola Lea
Melvin Smith
Athens
Wiliam WohMorf
Max Lawson
Princeton Archery Club
Douglas Warehouse
Fifth Street
Legion
Princeton Post
American Legion
Memorial Building
Fugitives from Virginia Returned by State Police
Three Virginia fugitives arrested in Mercer were handed over to Norfolk authorities Sunday. Robert Champ Jr James Duran Smith and Frank Alfred Cowan Jr waived extradition and were moved from the Mercer jail by Virginia officers. Champ was captured Friday in Princeton while Cowan and Smith were seized at Ingleside Friday evening by city and state police. They were wanted on an armed robbery charge in Virginia.
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Virginia
Norfolk
Sunoz Lo. S. L. Murden
Robert Champ Jr
James Duran Smith
Frank Alfred Cowan Jr
Mercer
Murden Champ
Princeton
Cowan
Smith
Ingleside
Ral E. D. Bazzie
T. R. Jewell
Ten Persons Booked At County Jail In Weekend
Ten persons were booked at the county jail Saturday and Sunday. Princeton police arrested four drunks Saturday and one Sunday. At 2 25 Sunday Patrolmen Steve Kassay and C Thorner charged Billy E Weikel with rock driving. Weikel posted 57 50 cash bond. State and county officers accounted for four drunks Saturday.
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Princeton
Mene
Steve Kassay
C. Thorner
Billy E. Weikel
Weikel
Condemnation Suit Opens in Court Today
The West Virginia Turnpike Commission sues Warlas Keaton and wife over property seized for a right of way in Ban River district. Trial is set to begin with freeholders among the jurors. Reported plans include appraisal by the commissioners.
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West Virginia
Warlas Keaton
Ban River District
For Rent: Three Room Apartment in Prince Address
Apartment listing offering a three room unit for rent, furnished or unfurnished, suitable for a couple. Applications preferred at 210 Thorn Street, Prince.
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Thorn Street
Prince
WVU Offers Sixth Annual Short Course in Coal Prep
West Virginia University conducts its sixth annual short course in coal preparation at Gary. The Extension Department of the School of Mines teaches crushing, screening, mechanical cleaning, dewatering, dust control, float and sink testing, washability, proximate analysis, and related topics for practical operators. The program runs during the 1955 summer session alongside two other coal industry courses, July 5 to Aug 12 at the university campus and Gary facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia University
Gary
School of Mines
University School of Mines
Sheraton Hotels Launch Coast to Coast Closed Circuit TV
Sheraton Corp of America announced a national homegrown closed circuit television network aimed at business use for meetings and sales in its 30 hotels in the United States and Canada. The system, expandable to 100 cities via AT&T facilities, includes an entertainment rental for future exploitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sheraton Corp. of
America
Page Ones
Sheraton
Canada
Polish national given death sentence for espionage in Warsaw
A Polish national named Wladislaw Dubielak was sentenced to death by a Warsaw military court on espionage charges. The Polish radio reported he worked as an agent for American British and West German intelligence services. Passengers on Peoria buses can now use gum dispensing machines while smoking remains banned.
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Vipma
Austria
Wladislaw Dubielak
Warsaw
Dubielak
Peoria
John Quinn
Prince Edward County Defies Integration Pressure in Virginia
The Virginia county rejects a federal mandate to desegregate as a Supreme Court ruling forces action. County board funds only essential maintenance while planning white teacher raises and debate over a possible special legislative session lingers into August or fall. The Gray Commission weighs options as legal questions loom over school buildings and future funding.
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Virginia
Sureme Court
Prince Edward County
High Court
South
Prince Edward
Federal District Court
Supreme Court
A Ee
Board of Supervisors
Gov
Stanley
General Assembly
Commission On Public Education
Garland Gray
Gray Commission
Commission
Nass
National Assn
Four room unfurnished experiment with essentials
Four room unfurnished experiment. Heat water and sewerage furnished. Rent reasonable. Phone 2268 Princeton.
Norton Lad Graduates At Mercersburg School
Alvah Stone son of Mr and Mrs Norton Stone Worth graduates among 112 seniors at Mercersburg Academy sixty second June commencement Headmaster Charles B Tippetts presided Stone entered in 1952 and belonged to Marshall Literary Society Concert and Football Bands Assembly Orchestra Les Copains French club and Varsity Club He won Varsity M in football and wrestling and ran track.
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Mercersburg
Alvah Stone
Norton Stone of
Worth
Mercersburg Academy
Charles 8. Tippetts
Stone
Marshall Literary Society
Assembly
Les Copains
WVU Opens Course In Athletic Administration
West Virginia University starts its eighth annual graduate workshop for coaches and physical educators. The program runs through June 24 with visiting consultants Yron W N. Bozarth and Harold Jack, plus university staff aiding. Later sessions cover football and track.
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West Virginia University
Yron W N. Bozarth
Mansfield
Ohio
Harold Jack
Virginia State Dept. of Education
N. (Red) Brown
Deany O. Duncan
School of Physical Education
State University Adds Four Faculty Members
The president’s office announced four new faculty appointments at West Virginia University, naming two assistant professors and two instructors. Dr. Frank Joseph Schwartz was named assistant professor of biology, a Pittsburgh native who earned degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Armine Deane Paul of Elwood City was named assistant professor of chemistry, with a BS from Penn State and a PhD from California. Lucille Anne Schmieder, with a West Virginia master’s, was appointed instructor in dairy science. Robert Lee Steele of Kincheloe, Harrison County, was named instructor in dairy science, holding a BS in agriculture from the University with prior study at Potomac State College.
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West Virginia University
Frank Joseph Schwartz
Pittsburgh
Schwartz
University of Pittsburgh
Armine Deane Paul
Elwood City
Paul
Pennsylvania State University
University of California
Lucille Anne Schmieder
West Virginia
Robert Lee Steele
Kincheloe
Harrison County
Steele
The
University
Potomac State College
Humid Hot Normal Weekend Across Regions
The report notes hot and humid conditions in the East and South on Sunday with near normal temperatures elsewhere for early June. Scattered showers occurred across Nebraska Texas Oklahoma Kansas the Rockies and New England and temperatures ranged from 78 degrees in Corpus Christi Texas to 31 in Bryce Canyon Utah.
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Wee Press
Nebraska
Texas
Olahoma
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
New England
Corpus Christi
Tex
Bryce Canyon
Utah
Area Men Join United States Air Force Recruit in Bluefield
Bluefield area men enlist with Air Force during May under Staff Sergeant Bill Elkins. The May quota includes eight first time enlistees: Emilio Pietranzozzi, Michael and Ronald Thompson, James D. Aker, James W. Erps, Jerry and William McNeal, Wallace Ashby, James E. Hawks, James F. Shorts, James S. Yonce, William R. Durham, James Jenkins, Kent Farley, William Crowell, Arthur Lee Jones Jr, James B. Meador, Sherman Bailey, Stanley Wimmer, James R. Barnette, William Shanklin, F. Bailey, and Raymond W. Harris Jr. Three men reenlisted: Dillard Landreth, Ross Stowers, and Coy Jackson Wood.
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Bluefield
Air Force
Bill Elkins
Wten
Elkins
Emilio A. Pietrantozzi
Carl Pietrantozzi
McComas
Michael
Ronald Thompson
Blankenship
David W. Blankenship
Mary Grace Blankenship
Princeton
James E. Hawks
Reuven Hawks
James F. Shorts
Emuel L. Shorn
James S. Yonce
Sylvia G. Yonce
William R. Durham
William Owham
Lashmee
James D. Jenkins
Sherman Bailey
Stanley R. Wimmer
James E. Wimmer
Kegley
James R. Barnette
Richard K. Barnette
Cedar Bluff
W. H. Shanklin
William H. Shanklin
R. Shanklin
Israel and Egypt trade mortar fire near Gaza border
An Israel army spokesman said Egyptian forces directed automatic and mortar fire at an Israeli border patrol in the Gaza Strip area. The patrol replied with mortar fire. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side.
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Israel
Egypt
Gaza
Jerusalem
Gaza Strip
Israel Army
College grads raising larger families says statistics
The Population Reference Bureau reports college educated men and women now have more children than a decade earlier. Men ten years after graduation show 70 percent more children than in 1946 and women show 51 percent more than sisters of the class of 1936. Yet overall graduates fall short of the 2.15 replacement level.
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Milton
Mass
Population Reference Bureau
Nationalist Fighter Downed Over Swatow
Peiping radio reported Red Chinese anti aircraft guns shot down one of four Nationalist propeller fighter planes that raided the Swatow area opposite Formosa.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Swatow
Formosa
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Gelert
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Womens Prison
Ida Lupino
Pi Terke
Thry United Akiat
WVU
Sheraton Hotels
Clark Gable
Vivien Leigh
Leslie Howerd
Hattie McDaniel
Evelyn Keyes
Hari Devonport
C. C. Stafford
City OF
By James Geary
Associated Press
Sacred Heart Catholic
AP Irephoto
Norton Lad
Mercersburg School
For the Advancement of Colored People
State University
US Air Force
Goodyear
Stuckman Tire Service
Bluefield Ave
W. VA
East End
Goodyear Tire
Penney
Penney’s
Everson Panell
Everson
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